A subnet, or subnetwork, is a segmented piece of a larger network. More specifically, subnets are a logical partition of an Internet Protocol (IP) network broken into multiple, smaller network ...

Table 1. This table illustrates subnet masks. The number after the “/” in the CIDR notation indicates the total number of IP addresses available. Click here to see an enlarged diagram. Understanding ...

To understand how subnetting works, you first must have a good basic understanding of IP addresses. An IP address is set of binary octets broken into quads. That definition may not have made any sense ...

IPv4 addressing is used to assign a logical address to a physical device. That sounds like a lot to think about, but actually it is very simple. Two devices in an Ethernet network can exchange ...

A subnet mask is a 32-bit binary number used in modern network addressing schemes to differentiate between a network's location and the specific location of a host or device on that network. A subnet ...

Subnetting and creating subnet masks is often outsourced to consultants, but doing it yourself can be both challenging and rewarding. In the IT world, specifically in networking, there aren’t many ...

When your sign up for Internet access on behalf of your company or purchase Web hosting for your company's Web servers, you will purchase either a dynamic IP address, a single static IP address or a ...

Broadcast and video production systems are moving rapidly into the IP realm. Therefore, understanding IP basics is now part of the engineer’s toolkit. To understand how IP works, we need to understand ...

If your company network is having problems and you need to troubleshoot it, you also need to know some basic information about the computers on the network. Internet Protocol is the underlying ...

If computers in an open network talk freely with one another and two computers start talking at the same time, you have a “data collision.” Collisions may be arbitrated via Carrier Sense Multiple ...